Have the Chinese moved on from bashing Tibetan monks to emulating Mao's Cultural Revolution? No, we have another culprit, but it's the thought that counts...uh or shall we say the lack of it.NY Sun:
PARIS — For more than two decades, 250 historians and specialists labored to produce the first six volumes of the General History of Latin America, an exhaustive work financed by UNESCO, the United Nations organization created to preserve global culture and heritage.You might say one step forward, two steps backward. And as the biggest donor country to the UN, I imagine we paid for this.Then, over the course of two years, UNESCO paid to destroy many of those books and nearly 100,000 others by turning them to pulp, according to an external audit.
P.S. It was of course unclear who was responsible. And some good came out of this--the books were recycled.
Posted by Anne Leary on April 14, 2008 10:30 AM
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